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I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican: A Survival Guide For Conservatives Marooned Among The Angry, Smug, And Terminally Self-Righteous (2009)

by Harry Stein(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

159403253X (ISBN13: 9781594032530)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Encounter Books

review 1: My brother is a die-hard Conservative, verging towards Libertarian. I am politically agnostic, but I spent my adolescence in the San Francisco Bay Area, my youth in Manhattan, and am currently living in LA working towards a career in the academic study of the liberal arts. On the one hand the dogmatism of my brother's approach is undeniably off-putting in many respects, but the assumptions, intolerance and bigotry which undergird the firmly "Left" areas have proven shocking to me time and time again, pushing me further and further away from the Left and more and more towards complete political atheism. The bald hypocrisy in the Left's general intolerance is as nauseating as that found in the slew of anti-gay politicians recently caught with male prostitutes. I understand b... moreoth sides of the American political debate intellectually, but not in any practical or emotional sense.All of this is a long way of explaining that I am looking to better understand my brother's perspective and hope books like this will help me.
review 2: Harry Stein (perhaps about 60) claims he converted from being a liberal at Berkley to being a lonely conservative on the Upper West Side of NY. I found parts of it not only funny, but also written by someone with a lot of wisdom. Just the jacket cover gives you a sense of the contents: "A survival guide for conservatives marooned among the angry, smug,and terminally self-righteous." One of the better parts was where he laid out some of the liberal set of nearly unquestioned beliefs such as taxing the rich is good, nuclear energy is bad, global warming is settled science and proof of how bad humans are; but, then laid out the topics you can raise in a conversation that get them to squirm: crime (especially what to do about brutal rape murder), welfare (topic of dysfunctional families and dependency ... but to soften them on the topic of welfare be sure to mention it is "well intended" so they are comfortable with you), and the big one of affirmative action.Stein has no love lost for New York Times, NPR, and nearly all media folks. His sharp writing made me giggle!My 5th star is withheld because it is somewhat disorganized - think cut and paste. However, it is fresh, because in the book Obama is the President! less

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